Just in time for 4/20, Ziggy Marley's THC-themed superhero drops by comic stores to trick crooks into thinking they're dying (so they'll call 911 on themselves). Plus, new Peter Bagge and a metric bongload of new graphic novels!

First Issues

The most promising new comic this week is the return Dark Horse Presents. The latest installment of this 80-page comic-and-prose anthology includes new work from such luminaries as Harlan Ellison, Carla Speed McNeil, and Howard Chaykin, the return of Paul Chadwick's rocky everyman Concrete, and a first look at Frank Miller's prequel to 300, Xerxes.

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As for the rest of the grab bag, IDW is releasing Matt Sturges' Doctor Who: A Fairytale Life (a four-issue miniseries about Amy Pond trapped in a medieval fantasyland) and the Infestation sequel Zombies vs Robots: Undercity (check out our preview here).

A particular noteworthy release this week is Peter Bagge's ninth Hate Annual, the idiosyncratic cartoonist's yearly angst-a-thon in which average schmoes freak out over day-to-day living.

As for fantasy titles, Fables continues with its storybook analysis of superheroes in the "Super Team" arc, and Kill Shakespeare approaches its conclusion (read our preview here). And superhero readers can keep their eyes peeled for a new issue of Matt Fraction's Invincible Iron Man and Rick Remender's gonzo X-Men espionage title Uncanny X-Force.

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Graphic Novels

There's a whole slew of interesting bookshelf material hitting the stands. In no particular order...

The ??? Category: Remember how I said Image was going high concept this week? On 4/20, the publisher's releasing Ziggy Marley's new graphic novel Marijuanaman. You can read our extensive interview with Marley about the superhero here. After checking out Marijuanaman, pick up a copy of the old-school D&D reprint collection Dungeons & Dragons Classics Volume 1 and blast some Deep Purple. Gelatinous cube, brah.

Britannia: For 2000 AD fans there are the third volumes of both Judge Dredd: Complete Case Files and Judge Dredd: Mega-City Masters. Additionally, there are three reprinted volumes of Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett's original Tank Girl tales.

As usual, here's the list of everything being released to comic stores tomorrow, and you can find your nearest comic retailer here. Happy reading, gang!